ROCK’n & JAM’n has teamed up with AMGA Certified Rock Guide, Craig Lubben, to instruct a series of safety clinics.

To sign up for the clinics, please contact RJ1 at (303)254-4344.


Trad Camp
Improve your trad climbing skills. Climb 3 days at beautiful Vedauwoo, WY with Arno Ilgner and Craig Luebben.

Clinic covers:
Crack Climbing (fingers to offwidth)
Lead Strategies
Lead Protection
Belay Anchors
Climbing Safety

Cost: $490
Date: 8/4/08-8/6/08


Crack Weekend
Climb 2 days to improve your crack climbing skills.

Cost: $325
Date: 5/24/08-5/25/08


Off-Width Clinic
Improve your off-width crack climbing skills.

Cost: $165
Date: 6/14/08


Anchor Clinic
Spend a day learning to set toprope, belay, and lead protection anchors including nuts, hexes, cams, tri-cams, ball nuts, and bigbros. Learn how to equalize the loads on your anchors, and how to oppose anchors to make them multi-directional. The class will also include a discussion of fixed pitons and bolt anchors, and tricks for removing stuck gear.

Clinic covers:

The history of climbing anchors, how to set good nuts, hexes, cams, tri-cams and tube chocks.
Cord and webbing, rigging anchors together to build top-rope and belay anchors, equalizing and opposing anchors, managing the belay station
Students rig several anchor setups to be evaluated by the instructor

Cost: $145
Date: 5/4/08, 6/8/08


Intro to Outdoor Climbing
Learn the basics of outdoor rock climbing. Class will be geared to the ability of the climbers.
Safety
Gear
Belaying & Communication signals
Top-Roping & rappelling
Face & Crack Climbing
Footwork & efficient movement on rock
Climbing Anchors
Knots
Risk management

Cost: $165
Date: 5/3/08. 6/7/08


Self-Rescue for Climbers Level I
Few climbers expect to epic... but bad luck and gravity can befall any climber. Responsible climbers possess self-rescue skills to extract themselves from adverse climbing situations, and they learn about potential hazards so they can avoid them.
Avoid many of the simple errors that cause climbing accidents.
Back up the rappel for increased safety, efficiency and control.
Climb the rope to free a stuck rappel line, or escape if you've fallen from an overhang and can't reach the rock or be lowered to the ground.
Improvise a belay device or rappel device if you've dropped or forgotten yours.
Escape the belay to assist an injured partner or go for help.
Haul your partner if he or she has become injured, fallen from an overhang, or simply can't follow your rad lead.
Use a block and tackle to unweight a jammed knot or undo a mistake when performing a self-rescue.

Bring:
Standard rock climbing harness (preferably with a belay loop)
Belay/rappel device
2-3 locking carabiners
4-5 standard carabiners
3-4 9/16-inch nylon slings
5.5- or 6-millimeter diameter by 16- to 20-foot long cordelette.

Prerequisite: Be able to tie the following knots from Knots for Climbers: figure eight, prusik, klemheist, bachman, autoblock, munter, and munter mule


Self-Rescue for Climbers Level II
Refine the skills you learned in Self-Rescue Level I (pre-requisite), and put them into practice during a simulated leader rescue.

Pass a knot when hauling, lowering or rappelling.
Rescue an injured lead climber.
Perform a counter-balance rappel and spider rappel to descend with an injured partner.

Bring:
(same gear as Self-Rescue for Climbers Level I).